Nauruans Discover The Caucasus

A quick calculation suggests that tiny Nauru's little gambit could deliver the equivalent of $3,571 per capita (it's got just 14,000 citizens).

Could it be that Moscow's trying to finance its own "color revolution" in Micronesia?

A green one, that is. You see, according to the "UN Dispatch's" Abhishek Nayak, Nauru appears to be punching above its weight in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

-- Andy Heil

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